Open Government Data and Beer Analytics
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Open Data Science Conference | East
Jasmine Dumas | @jasdumas | jasdumas.github.io
Fridad, May 5th, 2017
ttbbeer and shinyLPThe “clearinghouse” for open U.S. government data is located at data.gov. It also contains tools & resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, and design data visualizations.
read.csv() or read.table()I was inspired to become better at finding datasets and web scraping from the road-blocks of finding analysis-ready datasets for projects about beer!
Here is a tutorial I wrote to get meta data on brewery ratings in Connecticut from Beer Advocate using Import.io and processed the data with R.
ttbbeerThis R data package provides one dataset for materials used at U.S. breweries as listed in the Beer Monthly Statistical Releases, and eight datasets for historical tax rates of distilled spirits, wine, beer, champagne, and tobacco from the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB)
ttbbeer packagervest 😀